Mobileme family account - problems using Ichat

Hi all!
I have problems with my mobileme family account - using Ichat.
I´m the master account ( e.g. named A ), my wife ( e.g. named B ) has one of the other free 4 family accounts.
At office I have an Imac with Ichat logged in under name "A" and my wife at home has a MBP with Ichat logged in as name "B".
When I´m at the office I´m not able to see if my wife is online or not - even I cannot make a video call to her because "her contact" is offline.
Sometimes a message pops up : AIM is telling me that I´m ( name "A" ) online on two different locations at the same time !?
Do I make something wrong or is it really not possible with a mobileme family account to use Ichat for all family accounts ?
EDIT: I just recognized that at my wife´s MBP she is logged in with her email address. When I click on that email address I see "Pseudonym/ID" - and if I change that to "name" ... my name appears instead of hers - very strange
Thank you for your help and sorry for my strange English
Gregor
Message was edited by: Sidney1

Hi,
The answer to this is that the regular posters only get here at certain times of day.
I am here about 4 hours of so most evenings (about 17 hours after you first posted).
Defcom does sometimes get here early afternoon his time (Same as mine).
We were not ignoring you, we just weren't here.
As Defcom has said it is about whether the accounts/Email IDs are Aliases or not.
10:17 PM Wednesday; January 13, 2010
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